Zuoyun

See also: Zuǒyún

English

Alternative forms

• Tsoyun, Tso-yün (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左雲／左云 (Zuǒyún).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(d)zwoʊˈjuːn/, enPR: dzôʹyünʹ

Proper noun

Zuoyun

1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
   • 2007, The China Business Handbook 2007‎^[1], 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

     In November 2006, explosions at two Shanxi mines, one in Yuanping and the other in Jinzhong, killed 109 people. Earlier in the year, a coal mine flood in Zuoyun county killed 56 miners.

   • 2007 February 26, “China jails mine boss after flood kills 56”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-04-09, Latest Crisis‎^[3]:

     The coal mine boss, Li Fuyuan, 45 this year, was found guilty of failing to adopt effective measures after learning of flooding in his mine in Zuoyun county last May 18, the newspaper said.

   • 2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World‎^[4], AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 419–420:

     After a flood drowned fifty-six miners at the Xinjing coal mine in Zuoyun county, Shanxi, the operator falsely claimed that only five miners had been trapped inside. The township head and Party secretary both knew the real number of miners trapped underground and aided the mine operator in sending family members of the trapped miners to neighboring Inner Mongolia in order to prevent them from speaking to the press.

   • 2012, Tim Wright, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal‎^[5], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:

     Across Shanxi in the 1990s, one-sixth of rural income was dependent on coal (Zhang Yanan 2000: 37). In Zuoyun, coal was crucial to income growth in the 1980s.

   • 2019, Sabrina Ricci, Garret Kruger, “Zuoyunlong huangi”, in 50 Dinosaur Tales‎^[6], →ISBN:

     Zuoyunlong huangi was a basal hadrosaurid that lived in the late Cretaceous, in what is now Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China.
     [...]The genus name Zuoyunlong means "Zuoyun dragon," and refers to Zuoyun, where the dinosaur was discovered.
     The species names huangi is in honor of Mr. Huang Wei-Long "who excavated the first dinosaurs in Zuoyun County and even Shanxi Province in 1957."

Descendants

• Translingual: Zuoyunlong

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 左雲／左云 (zh) (Zuǒyún)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Zuoyun, Tsoyun, Tso-yun at Google Ngram Viewer